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Welcome to Radio Relay Towers

Welcome to Radio Relay Towers. This blog contains news, pictures from my current work and commentary. The blog operates like an anthology with a two ongoing stories- The Naked Boy and The Green Man of Portland.

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The Naked Boy

The Naked Boy is a birth of the nation story. The Naked Boy is spit out of the mouth of a whale. The Naked Boy is given the mission to follow the railroad west to kill the Great Bear. There are two narrative voices throughout the story. The first is the omniscient narrator, the poet. This voice uses the device of epic, heroic poetry. The second is Preacher Smith, a syndicated talk radio preacher. Preacher Smith is never seen, he broadcasts locally from everywhere the Naked Boy finds himself. Preacher Smith is the main agitator against the Naked Boy.

The Naked Boy Part 1

This edition contains the first three chapters of The Naked Boy and includes an introduction by Barry Sanders, author of The Sacred Paw and A is For Ox. There are also great pin-ups by Jeff Lemire, C. Hollow, Seamus Heffernan, Annie Murphy, Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Ryan Bubnis and Zack Rau. You can order a copy of The Naked Boy Part 1 by clicking on the picture. $15.00

The Naked Boy Part 2

Summer is in the air as The Naked Boy saga continues. The Naked Boy grows older as he crosses the continent to kill The Great Bear. In this episode he meets a family of escaping slaves en route to Freedom City. Freedom City has another knickname- The City of Big Men, and the City of Big Men is the heart of a vast military industrial complex. The Governor of Freedom City is going to run for president and the Naked Boy is the key to his campaign. Ursula and The Great Bear try to find out who is keeping them from contacting The Naked Boy directly. And the Naked Boy continues to lose body parts as he rambles West in this exciting second chapter of this American epic.Click on picture to order. $10.00

The Naked Boy Part 3

The Naked Boy continues on his westward journey in the penultimate chapter of this American epic. The Naked Boy and his new friend Frank the Bum meet Big Man and the last of his tribe. They join together to face off in a last stand against The Boy General. Meanwhile, all the characters in this birth of the nation story move inexorably west for a final collision on the other side of the mountains.

The Green Man of Portland

Since Portland’s founding, sightings of small green archers have been reported throughout the city. Very few documents exist to confirm these rumors. Along with the archers, a celestial stag, a phantom building and a huge tree have been spotted, time-to-time, throughout Old Portland. Whenever the archer hits someone, her vision changes. An aura of flowers grows from the heads of passersby. Suddenly a building called “The Greenwood” is visible where there was no building before. A giant tree larger than any buildings in town towers over the city. On certain nights, a great white celestial stag is spied in the skies over Portland. The Green Man's arrows pierce the secret history of Portland.

The Green Man of Portland # 1

The Green Man of Portland collects The Green Man of B Street # 0 and # 1 and Radio Relay Towers 2. This first issue begins the saga of the Green Man of Portland with a full color cover. Order it at Lulu Publishers for only $10.00!

About Me

I'm an artist and writer. I am a 2010 Hallie Ford Fellow in art. I make site-specific wall drawings, paintings, comics and sculpture to tell stories that meditate on myth in the American psyche. My sculpture and drawings have been shown nationally including MASS MoCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, The Albuquerque Art Museum, Contemporary Craft Gallery, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and The Art Gym at Marylhurst University. My illustration and comic work has appeared in Tin House Magazine and the self-published titles, Radio Relay Towers, The Green Man of B Street and We Are on Our Mind (with C.Hollow). My writing has appeared in Parabola, Artweek, ARTnews, The Organ, The Bear Deluxe, Emily Dickinson Award Anthology, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Technical and Ceramics: Art and Perception. My work has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Press, The Albany Times Union, The Oregonian, Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers, Artweek, The Willamette Week and the Portland Mercury.
I teach at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

The Naked Boy Poster Project

The Naked Boy posters are hand-pulled letterpress and linocut prints featuring the historic figures appearing in The Naked Boy. Friends and acquaintances will begin distributing these posters all over the world. Look for them on utility poles, coffee shops etc. Email me and I will send you five posters to distribute and one signed for you. Here is the latest poster featuring Adam (Frederick Douglass). Read The Naked Boy Part 2 to see where Adam and his family fit into the larger story.

Daniel Duford Etsy Store

Check out drawings, prints and paintings for sale at my etsy store.

Wellspring: Poems 1993-2003

Wellspring collects a decade of poems. This edition includes four original prints bound into the book. $25 from Publication Studio